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Beta Rev Disk Drivers for Windows Vista

Posted 2007-01-01 09:58 PM in Musings | Tools.

I have a love/hate relationship with my Iomega Rev Drive. I love the drive, but I hate Iomega.

The drive hasn't worked in Vista since I upgraded due to lack of drivers, and that's cramped my backup strategy. However, I noticed today beta drivers for Vista up on their incrediblycraptastic support site.

Here's the direct links so you don't have to futz around. Good luck.

Vista Compatibilty with Rev Drive

Automatic Backup doesn't work anymore.

Vista Compatibilty Support Forum - complain here
Vista Rev Drivers Public Beta Page

Direct Link to the Beta Drivers - subversion 5005.
Feedback Survey

It's a great little piece of hardware, the Rev Drive, it's just got yucky software because they choose to make it look like a UDF (DVD/CD) device, rather than a removable hard drive (which would have been my preference.)

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:59:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

What are your thoughts on the online backup services? Seems to be cheaper and much less hassle.

Tomas L

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:06:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I just don't trust them yet...I know they don't WANT my data, but I don't feel "in control" if the data isn't in the safety deposit box at the bank. S3 is promising though.

Scott Hanselman

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:48:51 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I know that using standard IDE drives in an external USB case might be clunkier than the Rev (maybe), but I learned long ago not to trust non-standard, single source storage solutions.

I've wasted enough time with dealing with drivers and difficult to acquire media for SyQuest, Iomega and Exabyte drives. Not to mention that their reliability didn't seem to match basic IDE drives.

Now it's IDE or SATA all the way (in external USB cases or in NAS devices).

Critical data gets FTP'ed offsite (encrypted) as well, and code goes into an online SVN provider (one which allows me to get periodic dumps).

mikeb

Friday, January 05, 2007 10:22:45 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I can't believe IOMEGA is even in business after the Zip Drive.

Reade

Friday, January 05, 2007 10:22:47 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I can't believe IOMEGA is even in business after the Zip Drive.

Reade

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